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The wind blew and the mist dissipated. In front of the vast snow, a castle stood there, locking the valley entrance firmly.

One man is at the gate, and ten thousand men cannot open it.

The warm sunset shone through the clouds and mist, illuminating the castle that was originally hidden in the fog clearly. This is a real castle, or even a castle shining in the sun.

"The heaven of immortality is above, it turns out to be a snow castle!"

The screams kept ringing, and many Tielers had already seen clearly that the castle that appeared in front of them turned out to be a crystal translucent castle, a castle made of ice. This made them hard to believe, and they felt a dreamy sense of unreality.

In front of this tall ice city, Tieler was stunned, stopped moving forward, and stood in the vast snow.

Not far away from them, on the tower of the Ice Castle was Dou Jiande, the battalion general of the Third Battalion of the Infantry. Following him were his old brothers from Hebei and his current confidant generals, Hao Xiaode, Sun Anzu and Gao Shida. Dou Jiande was the battalion general of the Third Battalion of the Infantry. He had nearly 3,000 troops and five regiments. Hao Xiaode and all served as the leader of the first regiment. Although the other two regiment leaders and deputy battalion generals, as well as the battalion commander Shi, Sima, Consultants, Registered Officers, Records, Records, Yu Hou and other officers. They were all held by others, Dou Jiande still had strong control and prestige in the Third Battalion of the Infantry Army. He was forced to leave his hometown more than half a year ago and wandered around. He went to Henan to visit Shan Xiongxin, Xu Gai and others.

After seeing Yi Feng, he made a quick decision and took the initiative to surrender to Yi Feng. Looking back now, there was nothing wrong with his quick decision at the beginning. Now, he has become a battalion general and commanded the first battalion. Although the Wuzhou army is now expanding rapidly, it is constantly expanding. In addition to the local garrison troops, the Yamen of the State Army has already owned four infantry battalions, two chariot battalions, one cavalry battalion and one mixed teaching battalion, and eight main battalion battalions. In addition to several direct regiments, there are eight battalion generals in the Yamen Army, and there are more than twenty battalion-level generals. But Dou Jiande can still rank in the forefront of the main battalion generals among the Yamen Army. A whole infantry battalion, nearly three thousand elite troops, could not imagine this half a year ago?

What's more, with Yi Feng, although he was only Yi Feng's personal aide at the beginning, in a short time, Yi Feng had become the chief manager of a town and opened the General's Mansion. Dou Jiande was just a person who was forced to leave his hometown by the county magistrate more than half a year ago. But now, he already has the rank of the sixth-rank general of the Zhengnan, and the county magistrate who bullied him was no longer as good as him.

Dou Jiande patted the ice castle that was becoming more and more crystal clear in the sun, feeling very comforted, and secretly glad that his original choice was not wrong.

Yi Feng's strength expansion was astonishing. In just a few months, Yi Feng not only controlled the Bashang area, with tens of thousands of troops, but also had legitimate official titles and titles enthroned by the court. The hundreds of troops who went north had now become tens of thousands of troops. When they fought a war and won a battle, the Huaihuang army became stronger and stronger. Although this battle has not yet ended, it has already won in advance. More than 8,000 Tieler cavalry were trapped in a river that was dozens of miles long and closed down and beaten dogs. They had won this battle without fighting. Who would have thought that they would have such a result before going north?

When Yi Feng decided to divide his troops and circumvent Tieler people, Dou Jiande felt that Yi Feng was a little too conceited. But now it seems that Yi Feng was confident and confident. Not only did they successfully block Tieler people, but a few days ago, who would have thought that Yi Feng would take advantage of the severe cold outside the border, like a magical craftsmanship. It took five days to block Dongchuankou and build a car array, and then build a stronger camp in front, and finally, it unexpectedly built an ice castle.

An ice-built giant that is as long as a thousand steps wide and three feet high.

Dou Jiande believed that even if the eight thousand Iron Cavalry in the valley were killed by all the ice castles, they would never be able to break through this ice castle.

In just three days, they built this huge ice fortress fortress and personally participated in the construction of this miraculous castle. Dou Jiande was now on this ice fortress and was still shocked. Before this, who had heard of it and who believed that it could be built in three days to build an ice castle? But Yi Feng did it, and it only took three days.

Looking back now, this ice castle actually looks very magical, but it is not difficult to build.

The weather here is cold, and behind him is the river where the She River and the Luoma River meet. The river water has long frozen into a thick ice layer. When Yi Feng established the camp, he proposed to use the surplus time to build an ice fort to enhance defense, many people found it incredible. However, Yi Feng suggested that during the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao fought against the Guanzhong Allied Forces between the Wei River and Ma Chao. At that time, Cao Cao took advantage of the severe cold winter and built a city with sand and water in a short time. The most important part of Cao Cao's city was to use the severe cold, dripping water to turn into ice. Every time he built a layer of soil, he poured it on it with poured ice water and waited for the water to cool down.

After the freezing, the city wall has solidified and then continued. After this repeated, a city was successfully built in a short time. However, Yi Feng’s plan proposed was more bold. He did not use soil, and directly took ice from the river behind, cut it into large pieces of ice bricks, and then built the wall with ice bricks. Each layer was built, and then poured it with melted ice water to condense the ice wall. This was repeated. In such a cold winter, once the ice was broken, it would not melt, and the ice city would naturally become extremely solid. It is convenient to get ice and boil water. Once this idea was opened, it was actually much simpler to actually build an ice city than a dirt city.

In three days, an ice city that is one thousand steps wide and three feet high has been established.

However, this is also the case where the Huaihuang Army had sufficient personnel. There were already tens of thousands of people encircled this time. Moreover, in the past few days, Su Zhi, the leader of the Xi tribe Ahui clan, led his subordinates to contact each other. Not only did he find the Ahui tribe who had been separated and hidden, he pulled them to the Sui Camp at Hechuankou, but he also finally contacted the other four tribes. The first batch of more than 10,000 troops in the first time of the four tribes also arrived at the Sui Camp. The Sui Camp had 50,000 or 60,000 people at once, and the number of people was still increasing every day. It was precisely because of these sufficient manpower that Yi Feng's ice city construction plan was very smooth.

When the Tiele army was dragged by Shan Xiongxin and Qin Qiong for seven days, they arrived at Dongchuankou, a brand new and magical ice city had been completed and stood in front of him.

The ice fort blocked Dongchuankou, and there was a small ice fort on each side, with longbowmen standing in each station.

However, the two chariot battalions that were originally preparing to take on the heavy responsibility and intercept Tiel cavalry, Huang Junhan and Lai-chi, were slightly depressed. They took a lot of effort to pull the chariot battalion here. As a result, with the establishment of the ice castle, the blocking position based on the chariot formation had lost its function. They sat on the bench again. The chariot battalion had to abandon its chariot behind the ice castle, climbed onto the castle, and participated in the city defense.

The three-meter-high ice castle city pass is ten steps wide. It also has many prominent horse faces and tall city plates. The longbowmen and crossbowmen stood behind the battlements with their bows, every hundred steps. There is also a tower, where the raiders and heavy infantry were all sitting in the fire without armor.

On the hillsides on both sides of the front of the ice castle, there are two small ice castles, like the two fists of the giant of the ice castle. The three ice castles are like open abyss mouths. They are waiting to devour the Tiel cavalry who are sent to them at any time. Behind these three ice castles, there is a camp composed of fugou, chest wall, wooden fence, and chariots. Behind are tents everywhere, which are the Xi people who are constantly rushing to come.

Such an arrangement was really an ambush on all sides and was foolproof. This time, no one of the people who attacked Tielle could escape.

Dou Jiande hit the ice wall with both fists and shouted majestic to the generals and schoolmen of the Third Battalion of Infantry behind him: "Are you ready?"

Sun Anzu and other generals raised their chests and raised their heads, and smiled and shouted, "It's ready."

"We are lucky. We marched in the snow for two days in the snow and cut ice and digging trenches in the snow. Today we are on duty. The damn Tieler people are really aware of the situation and come to the door." Dou Jiande spoke unconsciously and imitated Yi Feng's appearance. "You have to catch the credit for the delivery to the door. Don't be able to stop the majesty of our two-headed tiger flag at the critical moment."

On the high city wall, the double-headed tiger camp flags of the Third Battalion of the Infantry Army were whistling, frightening in the wind.

Although the wind blew like a knife, the more than 2,000 soldiers guarding the city were still standing majestic and solemn. Due to the good food in the army, three meals and daily exercise, the soldiers of the main battalion of Huaihuang Army were all strong. These soldiers were basically young and strong between twenty and forty, with almost no old or weak, and had no vacancy. In addition, the treatment was higher and more rewarded during the war, so the morale was high. Although the weather was cold, they not only had jackets, fur robes and fur cloaks, and they were not afraid of rain and snow. Each person not only had a hat and hat, but also had oil-clad rain poncho to block the snow. Although the wind was strong and the weather was cold, Huaihuang Army's logistics supplies clothing provided by the Huang Army.

The preparation is very sufficient and I am not afraid of such coldness. In addition, each soldier also has a gourd and a leather bag. One contains strong wine. When it is windy or snowy or cold at night, you can drink two sips of strong wine to prevent the cold. This wine has a function. Once injured, it can be used to clean the wound. In the other leather bag, you can fill some boiled water, pour some milk powder in, and add some meat floss. After some time, the warm and nutritious milk floss porridge that is rich in calories will be good. You can have strong body, eat well, wear enough, and have extremely high rewards. The soldiers of the two-headed tiger camp guarding the city defense are all full of morale.

When they saw the beacon signal lit by the scouts, not only did not panic, but they became excited.

In their eyes, the Tiel people are not enemies that are feared, but just military achievements to be obtained.

Dou Jiande patrolled the city wall and patted the shoulders affectionately at the longbowmen in the tower, "Brothers, the barbarians are finally here, everyone is cheering up. A barbarian has five stagnant money, it depends on whether you have the ability to get it."

The longbowmen laughed, "General Dou, we all thought these barbarians had frozen to death in the snow. They were already impatient when they waited. Now they finally came. You have to shoot a few more later and let out a breath of suffocation."

The swords, shield soldiers and spearmen were not in a hurry to pierce armor. In such a city defense battle, longbowmen and crossbowmen were enough in the first few rounds, and artillery soldiers could also go on the battlefield, but they were not in a hurry to play the swordsman, and they could continue to sit in the tower to cook fire, and when they needed them, they would go on the battlefield. Now, they only need to accumulate energy.

"General, if we guard such an ice city, our melee soldiers will not be able to get on the field. We will earn military merits for the crossbowmen in a while. We also have bows, and we will also go to the battlefield to kill the barbarians." A sword and shield soldier smiled.

The Huaihuang Army has extremely heavy bows and crossbows, and even the sword and shield soldiers and spearmen in close combat are equipped with bows and arrows.

Dou Jiande smiled and said, "Why didn't you get a longbowman in the first place? Now you talk to me about this, don't be so good at it. Now you are fighting in the city, so you don't need you half-baked archers. You are wasting arrows when you go up. Sitting here to cook the fire, and when you need you, you will naturally call you."

A brave snatcher shook his head helplessly and said, "When the general calls us, not only will the meat be gone, but there will be no more soup left. When we go out, we will probably just go to chop the heads and clean the battlefield."

Another said at this time, "You have to practice the longbow well when you go back, and try to get into the longbow team. It's good to be a longbow. Every time you fight, you stay in the safest place, with cavalry, swords, shields, and spearmen, and then you are the easiest to make meritorious contributions. You earn more military merits, make money quickly, and get promoted quickly..."

Dou Jiande just smiled and walked over. They said the truth, which is also a very unique place for the Huaihuang Army. The most desirable position in the entire army was actually the longbow soldiers. Moreover, those melee infantry often went on the field to clean the battlefield and cut off the heads of the people after a battle. However, Dou Jiande felt that this situation was very good, which fully demonstrated that the Huaihuang Army had been in a favorable situation during the war. Otherwise, the melee soldiers would have been sent forward to fight to the death, so how could they have had the chance to gossip so easily?

"The barbarians are here!" Sun Anzu said.

Dou Jiande retracted his thoughts, looked up, and looked out from a distance. About a thousand steps ahead, the two Luo cavalry were appearing continuously, gathering more and more.

"I guess these barbarians are stunned now!" Hao Xiaode smiled.
Chapter completed!